The Doré Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

286 Pages·2012·130.85 MB·English

by  Gustave Doré

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The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine
Comedy
Gustave Doré
Copyright © 1976 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
The Doré Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy is a new work, first published
by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1976. 136 illustrations are reproduced from
Dante Aligieri’s Göttliche Komödie . . . Illustrirt von Gustav Doré, published by
W. Moeser, Berlin, n.d., in two volumes. The quotations that accompany the
plates in the present volume have been taken from The Divine Comedy of Dante
Alighieri Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as published in three
volumes by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, in 1867. A new Publisher’s Note has
been written especially for this Dover edition.
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